Up until two days ago, I had heard thunder a total of 3 times in New Zealand, and each time there was only like one little rumble and then nothing ( Read more... )

I went to Australia and saw a platypus! And not like in a zoo, a real wild platypus living in a stream in a rainforest in the mountains in Eungella National Park ( Read more... )

I'm now finished with my exams, which means I am officially HALFWAY DONE with vet school! Yippeeee ( Read more... )

I miss books. As in good, well-written, intelligent, entertaining books read for pleasure. And I especially miss books that a) meet all these criteria and b) I have not read before. It seems like it's been months since I've read such a book. I have done SOME non-school-related reading, mind you-- my brain cannot survive without it-- but I'm ( Read more... )

Richard is still in the hospital, it is now one week since he developed a spontaneous pneumothorax. He still has a chest drain in and they x-ray each day to see if the lung has healed and reinflated, which it has not. Monday they will decide if he needs surgery, which will probably be the case; if so, he will be moved to Wellington to have ( Read more... )

Last night we had another successful barbecue/party to celebrate the end of the semester's classes and to eat the delicous animals that Richard has killed which have been taking up most of our freezer space for the past few weeks ( Read more... )

Yesterday we drove to Wellington to see the new Indiana Jones movie. It came out in Palmy as well, of course, but for big long-anticipated movies we like to drive down to the city where there's an actual big theatre with huge screens, stadium seating and, dare I say it, decent surround sound. Besides, road trips are fun! So we left at about 2:30 ( Read more... )

Led my traditional caving trip to Indecision Cave for MUAC on Saturday. It was a pretty fun trip, less hectic for me this year since I actually limited the number of people who could come; last year we had 35 people which meant we didn't have enough helmets, so I had to scramble around borrowing bike helmets and duct-taping flashlights to them and ( Read more... )

I just made myself the most awesomely yummy dinner, so I just had to share. I cut a chicken breast into strips and simmered them on the stovetop in lime juice and hot peri-peri sauce. Ate them wrapped in a tortilla with sprouts, tomato and a few dabs of sour cream, and a side of brown rice with salsa. It was gooood ( Read more... )

Yet another weekend of not doing much studying has passed. Semester's half over now so maybe I'll start studying more soon. Can't be that bad since I've been doing well on all these tests we've had lately ( Read more... )